20 Facts About John Roemer

John E Roemer is an American economist and political scientist.

John Roemer is the Elizabeth S and A Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University.

John Roemer is married to Natasha Roemer, with whom he has two daughters.

John Roemer then enrolled as a graduate student in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

John Roemer became intensely involved in the anti-Vietnam-War movement, transferred to the doctoral program in economics, and was suspended by the university for his political activities.

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John Roemer taught mathematics in San Francisco secondary schools for five years.

John Roemer is fellow of the Econometric Society, a past Guggenheim fellow and Russell Sage fellow, a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a corresponding fellow of the British Academy.

John Roemer was past president of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, and served on the editorial boards of many journals in economics, political science, and philosophy.

John Roemer served on the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty.

John Roemer has contributed mainly to five areas: Marxian economics, distributive justice, political competition, equity and climate change, and the theory of cooperation.

John Roemer's early work was an attempt to state the main themes of Marxian economics using the tools of general equilibrium and game theory.

In John Roemer, he proposed a model of agents who were differentiated by their endowments, and had to choose occupations—involving either selling labor, hiring labor, or working on one's own capital stock.

John Roemer's program was then to propose definitions of embodied labor time, for economies with more general production sets, which would preserve the CECP.

John Roemer was strongly influenced by Cohen, whose work Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence was to become the gold standard of analytical Marxism.

John Roemer was impressed with Ronald Dworkin's writings, advocating a kind of resource egalitarianism.

John Roemer expanded this theory in Roemer, where he proposed an algorithm whereby a society could equalize opportunities for a given objective, consonant with its own view of what factors individuals should be held responsible for, and what factors demanded compensation.

John Roemer was naturally interested in the 'democratic class struggle, ' that is, the manner in which classes in democracies contest their opposing interests.

John Roemer was dissatisfied with the reigning concept of political equilibrium, Hotelling-Downs equilibrium, for several reasons: first, it conceptualizes political actors as caring only about winning elections, rather than representing constituents, and second, the concept is extremely fragile, as equilibrium exists, generically, only if the policy space is uni-dimensional.

In John Roemer, he proposed a concept of political equilibrium in party competition, which exploited the idea that party organizations consist of factions.

In John Roemer, it is shown that, in a variety of games, Kantian equilibria deliver Pareto efficient allocations—they rectify the inefficiencies associated with Nash equilibrium.